I think searching for a word is fine, as long as you use the right file extensions.
In my case I save a lot of things as .txt because they are easy to scan for words
I have pdf and djvu files automatically converted to have a .txt version along with them, so I content scan and find the txt, and can open the associated pdf
* If you save as doc or odt you could have a similar thing, there's probably a program somewhere that will do so
* I think Everything would work fine for that, although AgentRansack and others have the edge in that display hits on each line within a file
* You can also get programs that index the contents of everything (including emails) for instant finding, they tend to create huge storages for this.
* Thesauric etc finds - some programs would be able to do this, so in searching for 'hot', 'boiling' and 'burning' would also be found, and in searching for 'realise', 'realize' would also be found
* You could actually concatenate all your notes together and pass it to an AI engine to summarise, and pass them as individual files to get summaries of each, as they are getting better at this. I think someone would need to script the latter task.
* I've created my own 'memories' for people and I tend to put them all into a single file, dragging items into sections
* You could also put them all into a single file and put codes before each entry and then sort them alphabetically to help that task (eg HSE for house), and then finalise them (removing the codes in the process)
In programs like word or libreoffice you can -
* Use Headings for each section, and the program can build a contents with page numbers
* Put index entries for topics at any point (e.g. childhood, mum could be placed for a sentence), and it will generate an index at the end, so that single sentence would appear in the index at multiple points.
See this example - https://ask.libreoffice.org/uploads/ask ... a52f42.png
In my case I save a lot of things as .txt because they are easy to scan for words
I have pdf and djvu files automatically converted to have a .txt version along with them, so I content scan and find the txt, and can open the associated pdf
* If you save as doc or odt you could have a similar thing, there's probably a program somewhere that will do so
* I think Everything would work fine for that, although AgentRansack and others have the edge in that display hits on each line within a file
* You can also get programs that index the contents of everything (including emails) for instant finding, they tend to create huge storages for this.
* Thesauric etc finds - some programs would be able to do this, so in searching for 'hot', 'boiling' and 'burning' would also be found, and in searching for 'realise', 'realize' would also be found
* You could actually concatenate all your notes together and pass it to an AI engine to summarise, and pass them as individual files to get summaries of each, as they are getting better at this. I think someone would need to script the latter task.
* I've created my own 'memories' for people and I tend to put them all into a single file, dragging items into sections
* You could also put them all into a single file and put codes before each entry and then sort them alphabetically to help that task (eg HSE for house), and then finalise them (removing the codes in the process)
In programs like word or libreoffice you can -
* Use Headings for each section, and the program can build a contents with page numbers
* Put index entries for topics at any point (e.g. childhood, mum could be placed for a sentence), and it will generate an index at the end, so that single sentence would appear in the index at multiple points.
See this example - https://ask.libreoffice.org/uploads/ask ... a52f42.png
Statistics: Posted by meteorquake — Fri Aug 30, 2024 9:54 am